'Brunswick green' definitions:
Definition of 'Brunswick green'
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- Brunswick green \Bruns"wick green`\ [G. Braunschweiger gr["u]n, first made at Brunswick, in Germany.] An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Brunswick green'
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- Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), n.
- 1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. [1913 Webster]
- O'er the smooth enameled green. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
- In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Any substance or pigment of a green color. [1913 Webster]
- Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; -- called also Helvetia green.
- Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin.
- Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition.
- Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
- Chrome green. See under Chrome.
- Emerald green. (Chem.) (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) See Paris green (below).
- Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium.
- Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also light-green.
- Mineral green. See under Mineral.
- Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.
- Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, {imperial green}, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and {mitis green}.
- Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Brunswick green'
From: GCIDE
- Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), n.
- 1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. [1913 Webster]
- O'er the smooth enameled green. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
- In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Any substance or pigment of a green color. [1913 Webster]
- Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; -- called also Helvetia green.
- Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin.
- Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition.
- Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
- Chrome green. See under Chrome.
- Emerald green. (Chem.) (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) See Paris green (below).
- Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium.
- Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also light-green.
- Mineral green. See under Mineral.
- Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.
- Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, {imperial green}, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and {mitis green}.
- Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green. [1913 Webster]